# Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) vs LiveKit Agents (slim)

> LiveKit Agents scores 72.5 (BB) to Hume EVI's 56.7 (C) for voice agents. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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LiveKit Agents scores 72.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface)'s 56.7 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) leads on schema & documentation. Both do voice agents.

- Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface): C 56.7, rank #693 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hume-evi.min.md
- LiveKit Agents: BB 72.5, rank #104 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/livekit-agents.min.md
- Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface), good for Consumer and coaching products where the caller's tone matters and English is enough on EVI 3. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 90 against 81. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- LiveKit Agents, good for Teams writing their own voice agents in Python or Node.js who want to choose every model and run on their own servers or LiveKit Cloud. Ahead on Reliability, 67 against 55; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 66; Security & auth, 62 against 27; Payments & pricing, 60 against 37; Maintenance & community, 85 against 65; Transparency & trust, 82 against 61. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Free to start without a card; Open source; Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.0 out of 5.

| Category | Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) | LiveKit Agents |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 67 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 90 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 66 | 80 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 27 | 62 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 37 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 65 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 82 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Hume EVI (Empathic Voice Interface) | LiveKit Agents |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Agent framework |
| Vendor | Hume AI | LiveKit Incorporated |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.hume.ai/v0/evi` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Price for voice agents | not published | $0.005 per minute of audio |
| Licence | MIT (SDKs) | Apache-2.0 for the framework and plugins. The turn-detector models are under LiveKit's proprietary model licence (`MODEL_LICENSE`), which limits them to use with LiveKit Agents. LiveKit Cloud and LiveKit Inference are closed services under LiveKit's terms |
| Last release | 2026-08-18 | 2026-10-15 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-05 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-02-25 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 180 stars, 79k npm/wk, 24k PyPI/wk | 15k stars, 820k npm/wk, 1.1M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | 3/5 (4) |